ICE Futures Achieves New Daily Volume Records In ICE Brent And WTI Crude Futures Contracts

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading electronic energy marketplace, announced that its regulated futures subsidiary, ICE Futures, set new volume records in its light sweet crude oil futures contracts last week.

ICE Brent Crude futures reached a new daily volume record of 292,994 contracts on December 8, surpassing by 4.6% the previous record of 280,152 contracts set November 30, 2006.

ICE WTI Crude futures reached a new daily volume record of 255,744 contracts on December 7, surpassing by 4.9% the previous record of 243,685 contracts set September 12, 2006.